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<h3 align="center">Proxy Server</h3>


<p align="left">This web form will enable you to resolve individual
handles and view their associated values. It uses a proxy server, which
understands both  the Handle System protocol and HTTP protocol.</p>

<p align="left">Simply appending a handle to the URL 
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/">http://hdl.handle.net/</a> and giving the
string to a browser as a location will also resolve that handle, but using this
form will enable&nbsp; you to see all of the handles values.</p>

<h4>Options:</h4>
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<b>Don't Redirect to URLs: </b>
If you type a handle into the text box, and that handle has a
URL associated with it as one of its values, the proxy server will instruct
your browser to display the location of that URL.&nbsp; If you select
&quot;Don't Redirect to URLs&quot;, the proxy will simply list the value. 
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<b>Authoritative: </b>
The Handle System uses caching to speed handle
resolution. If you check &quot;Authoritative Query&quot;, the proxy will bypass
the cache, go directly to the responsible handle server, and then refresh the
cache with the data for  that handle. </p>
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<b>Don't Follow Aliases: </b>
Some handles have <code>HS_ALIAS</code> values that indicate that its data
is stored in a different handle.  By default, the handle proxy will 
recursively follow aliases to their endpoint.  Selecting this option disables
this behavior.
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<a href="/">Return to proxy page...</a>

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